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Month: February 2011
Receiving Prayer Changes Things
I’ve always been slightly uneasy about the statement that prayer changes things. As far as I can see, prayer doesn’t change things; God changes things in answer to the prayers. It might seem a bit of a picky thing to say, but it is important. God is Sovereign and he chooses to act in response […]
Background to the Situation in Ivory Coast
There is an excellent summary of the background to the current political situation in Ivory Coast. It is too long to post here and includes a couple of videos. It really is obligatory reading for anyone who wants to follow the unfolding, and very sad, situation.
When I was a student at Bath University, the Christian Union held a mission week, which (for some strange reason) we called, Close To the Edge. We worked hard to create an interesting and innovative programme (ballet dancing in the biology refectory) and we prayed that people would become Christians – and some did. However, […]
How Not To Do Word Studies
This lecture on exploring Biblical Concepts is by our colleague Sue Pearson and forms part of the Wycliffe Bible Translators Biblefresh lecture series. How not to do word studies View more webinars from wycliffeuk.
Mission Spirituality
Any kind of mission activity must be accompanied by a mission spirituality if it is not to degenerate into activism. Mission spirituality is concerned with the spiritual resources from which mission springs: the experience of God that initiates the reading of Scripture that guides, and the prayer life that sustains the missionary or the movement […]
France 24 have produced an excellent 15 minute documentary on the situation in Ivory Coast. Sadly, I can’t embed it here, but you watch it here. The post-election crisis in Ivory Coast has dragged on now for more than two months. Both the outgoing leader Laurent Gbagbo and opposition leader Alassane Ouattara have been sworn […]
Lamin Sanneh on Religious Language
Because of its concern for translations that employ the speech of the common workaday world, Christian proclamation has had a populist element. In many traditional societies, religious language has tended to be confined to a small elite of professionals. In extreme cases, this language is shrouded under the forbidding sanctions of secret societies and shrines, […]
In this year of celebrating 400 years of the King James Bible, here is an interesting article in today’s Guardian. A number of writers (including Alexander McCall Smith and linguist David Crystal) talk about their experience of the KJV’s language in 6 short pieces. Below are a couple of extracts from novelist Janine Winterson’s article: […]
Not The 400th Anniversary
Eliza Carthy sings the King James Version. I’ve no idea how this links to the translation of the Bible, but it’s a great song.